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koen_hufkens , 7 months ago to academicchatter

A recent study highlights the decline in disruptive science. I think most of this is due to the intellectual poverty of a #scarcity mindset of current day #academia.

It is well documented that poor people suffer from a scarcity mindset, which erodes core cognitive functions. This mindset clouds decisions, prioritizing small short-term gains over long-term larger profits by affecting planning ability. The same applies to creativity.

@academicchatter

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

benfell , 6 months ago

@Runyan50 @koen_hufkens @academicchatter @FantasticalEconomics

Academically, the answer is often yes.

While college and university administrators focus on their legacies, building facilities for just about everything except learning, social science and humanities programs are deemed "useless" because we do not tell the powers that be what they want to hear and so we are starved for funding.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, on the other hand, produce ever more ways to extract profit from the poor. They are judged "useful."

That said, I would hesitate before extrapolating from studies of poverty, cognition, and decision-making to academic departments. Here, only adjuncts are likely to face the sorts of insecurity that afflict poor people.

MirrorAyako , 6 months ago to allstartrek

If I was Kang’s wife, that’d be grounds for divorce.

#AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #DayOfTheDove @allstartrek

benfell , 6 months ago

@MirrorAyako Do we have any information on Klingon divorce?

I’m just assuming batleths are involved.

#allstartrek @allstartrek

CultureDesk , 7 months ago to histodons

The original Monopoly was created in 1935 by Charles B. Darrow, and based on real locations in Atlantic City, with prices mirroring the one-time values of real estate. Atlas Obscura's Adrienne Raphel looks at its cultural impact, whether it's a bad game, and the nadir of the Monopoly Cinematic Universe — 2019's Ms. Monopoly, which remarkably failed to upend the patriarchy.

https://flip.it/ILRVwI

#History #Culture #Games #BoardGames #Monopoly @histodons

benfell , 7 months ago

@CultureDesk @histodons

So I guess the lesson here is, if you mean to educate people, board games are probably not the way to go.

DrBiscuit , 8 months ago to academicchatter French

I truly do not know what to think about this situation and I would love having your thoughts on this @academicchatter
One of my papers was accepted to be published in July (after the 2nd round of reviews, 1st round was minor modifications), announced on the website, I was asked whether I wanted to buy the pinted copy of the journal etc. My co-author and I were asked to do some modifications over a 1 week period. We were off at the time and asked for a delay that was accepted. (1/...)

benfell , 8 months ago

@DrBiscuit @TEG @academicchatter

This sounds to me a bit like "not invented here" syndrome. I'm wondering what happened with the journal that leads to such a repudiation of the previous team that the journal itself becomes unrecognizable.

I think my own response would be to withdraw in disgust. When "major changes" are not improvements, then they are about ego, and this is not a place for serious work.